What's For Lunch?

Story by Ja’Nyiah Jenkins. Photo courtesy of the Washington Post.

School food has been the same for a long time now. School food is not good. Kids don't like the school food and think it should change with new menus that the kids vote on. Some students don't enjoy school lunches. Everything from the taste of the food to the crowded cafeteria to how students act, can be challenging. Some people say that students are tossing out their lunches a lot more these days because the healthier they get, the more kids don't want to eat school lunch.

My experience with school lunch has been bad. It's not that good and it doesn't fill me up. During the day I still get hungry and irritated.

This is a problem because kids at school don't want to eat school lunch and are hungry for the rest of the day. Students feel like the school lunch is unpleasant, and when they don't eat they become annoyed. FPCS food services should care that we want new school lunches.

One solution would be to ask students what they would like to change and give them options to pick what they want the school lunches to be. Then kids would eat school lunches instead of throwing them away in the trash.

Ja’Nyiah is a senior at Friendship Collegiate Academy.